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From: Thomas C. Bishop (bishop_at_tulane.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 11:14:15 CDT

Got it.

It seems that default NETPBM does not have ppmtompeg so the VMD developers
should be aware that there are "extra" hurdles for folks (like me) that want
things to work "out of the box"

This old posting suggests I'm not the only one
http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sf-archives/archives-software/341764-netpbm-ppmtompeg.html

it appears from NETPBM changelog located at
http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/factory/x86_64/netpbm-10.35.64-1.2.x86_64.html

* Wed Apr 11 2007 nadvornik_at_suse.cz
  - removed ppmtompeg sources [#261140]

who know who but not why?
Do other distro's have this problem?

Tom

On Thursday 16 July 2009, John Stone wrote:
> Tom,
> You will need to install a working version of the NetPBM toolkit in order
> to allow the vmdmovie plugin to take care of the entire movie generation
> process, as that's the package that the "ppmtompeg" package is part of.
> You can also use the movie maker to generate the raw frames for your movie,
> and then compress them with the movie encoder of your choice, if you'd
> rather not use ppmtompeg, or if you have a more convenient tool (e.g. the
> Apple quicktime tools are quite popular).
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:55:57AM -0500, Thomas C. Bishop wrote:
> > If I blindly click away to "make movie " in VMD (1.8.6 and 1.8.7 ) it
> > does not work.
> >
> > The problem appears to be that SUSE does not get ppmtompeg w/ the
> > prepacked netpbm (think I got all of these details correct)
> >
> > This is what Imagemagik calls to convert to mpeg (again doing this from
> > memory)
> >
> > Other's have this problem?
> > Suggestions? Ideas? Workarounds?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Toim 

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